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Chop Shop

Welcome to Hattorichop's Chop Shop,

I will be posting photos here of everything I make related to kitchen knives.
I will start by showing you my 300mm kikuichi suji I just finished converting from western to wa.
I used a piece of spalted sycamore I picked up from Mark at Burl Source.Attachment 10104
I almost forgot to take a before picture.Attachment 10105
Here is the finished product, the black spacer is a piece of ebony from the original scales on the knife.

HaHa, I guess my title was a little misleading. The coffee table you see in the picture is pretty much my shop.
I also make stained glass lamps and such and I do all my glass cutting and soldering there. I do use my power tools outside on the picnic table but I do all the finishing on the coffee table.
I just though Hattorichop's Chop Shop had a nice ring to it.

Originally Posted by knyfeknerd

Nice, but I want to see some pics of the actual shop itself too.
Are you going to do any westerns?

Beautiful work Karl. The new handle on that masakage makes me wish I had taken you up on your offer to use it. The new handle is soo much better,but I was pleasantly suprised with the quality of the stock handle on mine.